Rotatable display stand



May 7, 1929. I E. B RUNHOFF ROTATABLE DISPLAY STAND Filed 00f. 1, 1927INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented May 7, 1929.

UNITED STATES i rinse-r PATENT m EDWARD BRUNHOFF, OF WYOMING, OHIO,ASSIGNOB TO THE BBJUINHOFF MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, CINCINNATI, OHIO, ACORPORATIUN OF OHIO.

ROTATABLE DISPLAY STAND.

Application filed October'l, 1927; Serial No. 223,413.

- vide for limiting the relative movement of the rack members so thatwhile they may be parted to display the goods suspended thereon they arenot permitted to concentrate the collective weight of the rack men'ibersand articles suspended thereon upon one side of the stand so as torender the stand liable to be upset by a concentration of weight uponone side of the stand. Another object is to provide an improved assemblyof stand, rotatable member and detachable rack members adapted to beconveniently produced, packed for shipment, and assembled for thepurposes intended. Another objectis to provide an improved assembly ofrotating member and rael: members detachably and ad justably interlockedtherewith. My invention also comprises certain details of form andarrangement and combination of components, all of which will be fullyset forth in the description of the accompanying draw ings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly in central vertical section, of adisplay stand or rack embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the stand shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the rack niemb rs detached.

Fig. 1 is an enlarged detail illustrating the manner of limiting theadjustment of the rack members relative to the rotatable member.

The accompanying drawings illustrate one embodiment of my invention inwhich represents a stand or stationary member comprisinga base 16, and astandard 17 projecting upwardly therefrom and provided with a shoulder18. The base 16 is provided with soft rubber pads 19 where the base isdesigned to rest upon a counter or show-case, so as not to be liable tobreak or mar the object upon which the base 16 rests.

A rotatable member comprises a metal attached a downwardly cupped flange21, and

tube 20 to the lower end of which is rigidly with a series ofperforations 25. I The perforations 2 1 and are arranged concentricallyabout the tube 20, and are uniformly spaced apart. I preferably providetwenty-four perforations 2 1, through the flange 21, and a like numberof perforations 25 through the flange 22- v I Y A series of rack members26 are provided by bending sections of wire to substantially the outlineshown in Fig. 3. The lower. ends of the rack members are curved or hooked at 27 and in assembling the rack members upon the rotatable member,are first engaged through the perforations 24, after which the upper endsections 28 are sprung upwardly away from the ends 27 and flange 21until the end 28 clears the top of the flange 22 and permit the end 28to be introduced from above into one of the perforations 25 in theflange 22 vertically above the perforation 24C engaged by the lower end27 of said rack member. The ends ofthe rack members are held resilientlyin position relative to the flanges 21 and 22, and each racli member hasa limited movement pivotally relative to the flanges 21 and 22, with thecenter of'the perforations 24 and 25, which it engages as a verticalaxis of adjustment. Each rack member has a horizontal section 30adjacent to its end 28, which rests upon the upper face of the flange22, and a short vertical section- 31 adjacent to the horizontal section30, which extends downwardly outside of the cupped rim of the flange 22,and describes an are about the end 28, which are is limited by contactof the section 31 with the rim of the flange 22 to limitthe pivotaladjustment of the rack member's relative to the rotable memher. 1

Each rack member is preferably subdivid edalong its horizontal section32 into a series of channels or spaces 33 by means of interposed bondsor humps 34-. Each space 33 is designed to receive one of the articlesto be displayed. The upward loop 35 at the outer limit of eachhorizontal section serves to confine and prevent the articles on displaybe-y tached and moved radially away from the flange 22, that the lowerend 27 reaches a position to be freed from its engagement with theflange 21. A price tag holder 42 is detachably mounted upon the upperend of the pedestal 17.

The diagonal sections 36 of the rack members serve to brace arid supportthe outer ends of the horizontal sections 32, and the weight of thearticles carried thereby, thus providing in the rack members lightweight combined w'th rigidity and strength to 'carry tire loadsrequired. By providing six spaces 33 to each rack member the twenty/dourracl: members are adapted to support and display a cross of articl s,and in a compact space, while readily permitting the rack members to beparted as indicated in Fig. 4, so as to permit any one of the articlesto be exposed to view and to light from any source or direction. Bylimiting the extent to which any one rack men ber may be moved pivotallyrelative to the rotatable member, the weightof the rack members andweight of "the goods carried thereby are not permitted to besufiiciently concentrated upon one side of thesupporting standard 17 soas to cause the stand to be thereby upset. I

The apparatus herein shown and described is capable of considerablemodification Within the scope of the claim without departing from thesoirit of my invention.

book at the lower inner end of each. of said brace arms to engage andintr-zrloclr with a perforatien in said lower flange, a hook at theinner end of each of said supporting arms to resiliently eng ge fromabove with a perforati on in said upper flange to pivotally support saidrack members upon and relative to said rotary member, and means to limitthepivotal movement of said respective rack mem bers relative to saidrotary member.

In testimony whereoi I have aitlxed mv' signature.

EDWARD nnunnorr

